SOME NOTES ON NEBRASKA BIRDS. 



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Peebles) ; " Rare in tlie vicinity of Omaha, but a colony breed annually thirty 

 miles north of here " (I. S. Trostler). 



201. Ardea virescens (i^»m.). — Green Heron; Poke. 



West Point, Omaha, Lincoln, Oakdale, etc. — common, breeds (L. Bruner); 

 " Probably not an uncommon summer resident " (Taylor) ; " The whole of tem- 



FiG. 3. — Green Heron : Poke. 



perate North America" (Goss); Beatrice — nesting, De Witt (A. S. Pearse); 

 Omaha — breeding (L. Skow); Peru, common— breeds (G. A. Coleman); Gage 

 county — breeds (F. A. Colby); "not rare as a summer resident " (I. S. Trostler). 



202. Nycticorax nycticorax naevius (Bodd.). — Black- 



crowned Night Heron. 



West Point, Oakland, Omaha, Lincoln (L. Bruner); " Nearly the whole of 

 America except the Arctic regions " (Goss); Omaha— nesting (L. Skow); Peru, 

 not uncommon — may breed (G. A. Coleman); Bow creek, Nebr. (D. H. Tal- 

 bot); "Straggler, saw one that was killed Sept. 3, 1894, near Cut-off lake" (I. 

 S. Trostler). 



203. Nycticorax violaceus (Zinn.).— Yellow-croavned Night 



Heron. 



Reported from Platte river— a single specimen seen from Valley (L. Bruner); 

 " Probaby a rare summer resident " (Taylor); " Breeding regularly north into 

 Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, etc. (Goss); "A rare summer resident" (L S. 

 Trostler). 



